American Imitates Various Chinese & Foreigners In Viral Video

Uploaded 3 days ago, the following video already has over 3 million views, ~100k comments spanning over 3000 pages, over 50k upvotes, and is still the number one video currently trending on popular Chinese video sharing website Youku…

In the above video, one young American man named Mike Sui impersonates a total of 12 different characters: A Beijinger, an American white person, Li Lei (a fictional character used in Chinese middle school English teaching materials, here represents mainland Chinese), an American black person, an African black person, a New Yorker, a Japanese, a Hong Kong Chinese, a Russian, a French, a gay person, and a Taiwanese Chinese. The dialogue alternates between English and Chinese and includes a lot of stereotypes, dialect, and inside jokes.

A copy on YouTube, with ~100k views and ~1000 comments:

Mike Sui also introduced his video on his Sina Weibo account, which currently has over 70k comments spanning 3600 pages and has been forwarded and shared an amazing 350k times….

@Mike隋: Hello everyone, I am LaowaiLoser Mike Sui, with fluent Chinese but nowhere to use it, sucks! Can’t go on “Avenue of the Stars” [a CCTV singing talent show], because I can’t sing or dance. Don’t want to participate in Chinese language contests for foreigners, because I’ve never considered myself a laowai anyway. Even my girlfriend is always saying: “Go ahead and talk, other than that what else can you do…?” Alright then, let’s let everyone see just how glib I can be! Note: 7:05 is the highlight~!

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